Checkmate

Watch the gears grind off their teeth, the screeching halt machine
 Digging heels in disbelief
 Two reactional identities, opposing policies
 A bait and switch routine
 Double takes and double-speak
 Still scripting the facade
 Asphyxiate and choke the truth
 All hail the money god
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 It's all the same, so deafening
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 A consequence, we asked for this
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 No, never again, the American scream
 
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 A coup d'état on full display, a liar's sick charade
 A traitor's grand parade
 Narcissistic masquerades for those without a say
 Systematic disarray
 Divide and conquer and close them in
 And bury secrets deep
 Make America hate again
 And bleed the sheep to sleep
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 It's all the same, so deafening
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 A consequence, we asked for this
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 No, never again, the American scream
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 You try to pick the lesser of
 But evil doesn't come in twos
 Bellicose and Balkanized
 A sinking ship of fools
 So kiss the hangman as you drop
 The rotting corpse of decency
 Just another casualty of the American scream
 Scream, the American scream
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 Repeat, echo, refrain
 It's all the same, so deafening
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 A consequence, we asked for this
 Repeat, echo, refrain
 No, never again, the American scream
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 Never again